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Sammy Ward

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During its Halloween 1992 purge of the IPLO (dubbed the "Night of Long Knives"), the Provisional IRA killed Ward while he was inside the Seán Martin GAA club on Beechfield Street in the Short Strand area of Belfast. Following this large-scale operation by the Provisionals, both factions of the IPLO surrendered and disbanded.

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